The London Health Sciences Centre has added 26 new patients to the count of people who received watered-down chemotherapy treatments over the past year.

Earlier this month, a hospital in New Brunswick and four hospitals in Ontario, including Windsor Regional Hospital, alerted the public that about 1,200 patients had received diluted doses of cancer drugs intravenously over the course of about a year. Marchese, the company that prepared the IV solution and supplied it to hospitals, has said it prepared the bags according to its contract.

In a release, London Health Sciences said the hospital discovered it had underestimated the number of affected patients in a review of the original count.

“This initial assessment was conducted by a clinical team convened to review these files day and night in order to identify affected patients as quickly as possible, with the aim of ensuring they heard from the hospital first about this unfortunate situation,” the hospital said in a release. “LHSC has since conducted a second review as a due diligence measure.”

The 26 additional patients bring the total number of people affected to 691 at the London Health Sciences Centre, 1,019 in Ontario and 1,205 overall. At the Windsor Regional, 290 cancer patients received watered-down treatments.

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